Gwyn Prins
Biographic Data
| ID | 140799 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gwyn Prins |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gwyn |
| FAMILY NAME | Prins |
| SIGNATURE | PRINS G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Emmanuel College - Massachusetts |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 33 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 98 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 33 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1978 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
The importance of being Metternich
Lifting the taboo on adaptation
HIV/Aids and security
The link between HIV/AIDS and ‘security’ is said by many to be well understood, particularly that between the movement and activities of uniformed services and the epidemic. There are strong opinions widely asserted. But recent research undertaken for UNAIDS by LSEAIDS (which brings together leading social scientists at the LSE to confront the social and economic implications of HIV/AIDS), reveals that this is not at all the case. The evidence ba…
Lord Castlereagh's return
This article suggests that the Annan High Level Panel that reported in December 2004 has produced the most important strategic document to be published by the UN since 1945, eclipsing the now distinctly dated Millennium Development Goals. It documents how it is unusually cogent and candid for a Blue Ribbon exercise. This article starts by describing both the long wave and the immediate events within which the Panel's work exists. The world is now…
Aids and global security
AIDS has been medically visible for 30 years; but only in the last five have the security implications of the pandemic begun to be discussed seriously. This debate has been in many ways unsatisfactory to date. The purpose of this article is to begin to rectify this at the moment when the first major efforts to combat the pandemic are beginning to take effect. It records therefore the history of that debate and ascertains in what useful and defens…
Civil and uncivil war
War in the end of the century is most frequently civil (intra‐state) in its cause, and usually most uncivil in its manner of conduct. Late‐twentieth century uncivil war has two leading characteristics: it neither recognises any value or humanity in the enemy, nor does it distinguish between war and crime. Yet it is confronted by a countervailing force in the form of an emergent regime of enforceable human rights. Peace enforcement now largely sup…
The Four-stroke Cycle in Security Studies
The purpose of this article is to consider the future prospects for the discipline of security studies in the face of a rising agenda of global, as well as national and international security issues. The author argues that security studies has not found it easy to accommodate itself to a transforming world scene. In particular, it failed disappointingly the challenge posed by the revolutions of 1989–91 which it neither foresaw nor, subsequently, …
Global Security and Military Intervention
Nuclear non-proliferation and global order
Journal Article Nuclear non-proliferation and global order Get access Nuclear non-proliferation and global order. By Harald Müller, David Fischerand Wolfgang Kötter. Oxford: Oxford University Press for SIPRI, Stockholm. 1994. 258pp. Index. £25.00. ISBN 0 19 829155 8. Gwyn Prins Gwyn Prins 1Global Security Programme, University of Cambridge Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 71, I…
Notes Toward the Definition of Global Security
Home Is Where the Heart Is
That Assembly, since the destruction of the orders, has no fundamental law, no strict convention, no respected usage to restrain it...‘fools rush in where angels fear to tread’. In such a state of unbounded power for undefined and undefinable purposes, the evil of a moral and almost physical inaptitude of the man to the function must be the greatest we can conceive to happen in the management of human affairs. 2
Spring in Winter
A compilation of scholarly studies addressing the nature and causes of the 1989 revolutions in Eastern European countries. Including a preface by the Czechoslovakian president, Vaclav Havel, contributors include such well-known figures as John Kenneth Galbraith
The Role of Superpower Summitry
The Battle for Control of the Camera in Late Nineteenth Century Western Zambia
THE BATTLE FOR CONTROL OF THE CAMERA IN LATE NINETEENTH CENTURY WESTERN ZAMBIA GWYN PRINS GWYN PRINS Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 89, Issue 354, January 1990, Pages 96–105, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.afraf.a098282 Published: 01 January 1990
Politics and the environment
Gwyn Prins outlines the environmental issues coming onto the international policy agenda and argues that governments will find it hard to address these issues effectively because environmental problems are not susceptible to normal political treatment. Environmental effects are synergistic, and environmental problems cannot be successfully tackled discretely, one by one. Their successful resolution would require a concerted, equally synergistic r…
Conventional force restructuring and arms control
F. Barnaby, The Automated Battlefield. New York: The Free Press, 1986. Pp.185; $18.95. R. Berg and A.D. Rotfeld, Building Security in Europe: Confidence ‐Building Measures and the CSCE. New York: Institute for East‐West Security Studies, 1986. Pp.iii + 181; paperback; NP. A. Pierre (ed.), The Conventional Defense of Europe: New Technologies and New Strategies (Europe/America series No.5), New York and London: New York University Press, 1986. Pp.x…
The Empire of Nature
Journal Article The Empire of Nature: Hunting, Conservation and British Imperialism Get access The Empire of Nature: Hunting, Conservation and British Imperialism, by John M. MacKenzie. Manchester University Press, Manchester, 1988. x + 340 pp. £35.00 hardback. ISBN 0 7190 2227 4. GWYN PRINS GWYN PRINS Emmanuel CollegeCambridge Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 88, Issue 352, July 198…
Games against Nature
Journal Article Games against Nature: An eco-cultural history of the Nunu of Equatorial Africa Get access Games against Nature: An eco-cultural history of the Nunu of Equatorial Africa, by Robert Harms. Cambridge University Press, 1987. xi + 276 pp. £30.00 hardback. ISBN 0 521 34373 9. GWYN PRINS GWYN PRINS Emmanual CollegeCambridge Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 88, Issue 350, Jan…
Siaya
Journal Article Siaya: the historical anthropology of an African landscape Get access Siaya: the historical anthropology of an African landscape, by David W. Cohen and E. S. Atieno Odhiambo. James Currey, London, 1988. viii + 152pp. £19.95 hardback, £7.95 paperback. ISBN 08214 0901 8 and 08214 0902 6. GWYN PRINS GWYN PRINS Emmanuel CollegeCambridge Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 88…
But What Was the Disease? The Present State of Health and Healing in African Studies
Journal Article BUT WHAT WAS THE DISEASE? THE PRESENT STATE OF HEALTH AND HEALING IN AFRICAN STUDIES Get access Gwyn Prins Gwyn Prins Emmanuel CollegeCambridge Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Past & Present, Volume 124, Issue 1, August 1989, Pages 159–179, https://doi.org/10.1093/past/124.1.159 Published: 01 August 1989
Perverse Paradoxes in the Application of the Paradoxical Logic of Strategy
Threat from the East? Soviet policy from Afghanistan and Iran to the Horn of Africa
Journal Article Threat from the East? Soviet policy from Afghanistan and Iran to the Horn of Africa Get access Threat from the East? Soviet policy from Afghanistan and Iran to the Horn of Africa, by Fred Halliday. Penguin Books, London, 1982. 149pp. £1.75. GWYN PRINS GWYN PRINS Emmanuel CollegeCambridge Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 82, Issue 327, April 1983, Pages 295–297, https:…
The Hidden Hippopotamus. Reappraisal in African History
African boundaries. A legal and diplomatic encyclopaedia
The Hidden Hippopotamus
What is to be done? Burning questions of our movement
Aids and global security
AIDS has been medically visible for 30 years; but only in the last five have the security implications of the pandemic begun to be discussed seriously. This debate has been in many ways unsatisfactory to date. The purpose of this article is to begin to rectify this at the moment when the first major efforts to combat the pandemic are beginning to take effect. It records therefore the history of that debate and ascertains in what useful and defens…
The Hidden Hippopotamus
The Four-stroke Cycle in Security Studies
The purpose of this article is to consider the future prospects for the discipline of security studies in the face of a rising agenda of global, as well as national and international security issues. The author argues that security studies has not found it easy to accommodate itself to a transforming world scene. In particular, it failed disappointingly the challenge posed by the revolutions of 1989–91 which it neither foresaw nor, subsequently, …
But What Was the Disease? The Present State of Health and Healing in African Studies
Journal Article BUT WHAT WAS THE DISEASE? THE PRESENT STATE OF HEALTH AND HEALING IN AFRICAN STUDIES Get access Gwyn Prins Gwyn Prins Emmanuel CollegeCambridge Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Past & Present, Volume 124, Issue 1, August 1989, Pages 159–179, https://doi.org/10.1093/past/124.1.159 Published: 01 August 1989
The Battle for Control of the Camera in Late Nineteenth Century Western Zambia
THE BATTLE FOR CONTROL OF THE CAMERA IN LATE NINETEENTH CENTURY WESTERN ZAMBIA GWYN PRINS GWYN PRINS Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 89, Issue 354, January 1990, Pages 96–105, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.afraf.a098282 Published: 01 January 1990
Nuclear non-proliferation and global order
Journal Article Nuclear non-proliferation and global order Get access Nuclear non-proliferation and global order. By Harald Müller, David Fischerand Wolfgang Kötter. Oxford: Oxford University Press for SIPRI, Stockholm. 1994. 258pp. Index. £25.00. ISBN 0 19 829155 8. Gwyn Prins Gwyn Prins 1Global Security Programme, University of Cambridge Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 71, I…
Politics and the environment
Gwyn Prins outlines the environmental issues coming onto the international policy agenda and argues that governments will find it hard to address these issues effectively because environmental problems are not susceptible to normal political treatment. Environmental effects are synergistic, and environmental problems cannot be successfully tackled discretely, one by one. Their successful resolution would require a concerted, equally synergistic r…
The end of the beginning of African history
HIV/Aids and security
The link between HIV/AIDS and ‘security’ is said by many to be well understood, particularly that between the movement and activities of uniformed services and the epidemic. There are strong opinions widely asserted. But recent research undertaken for UNAIDS by LSEAIDS (which brings together leading social scientists at the LSE to confront the social and economic implications of HIV/AIDS), reveals that this is not at all the case. The evidence ba…
Lord Castlereagh's return
This article suggests that the Annan High Level Panel that reported in December 2004 has produced the most important strategic document to be published by the UN since 1945, eclipsing the now distinctly dated Millennium Development Goals. It documents how it is unusually cogent and candid for a Blue Ribbon exercise. This article starts by describing both the long wave and the immediate events within which the Panel's work exists. The world is now…
Global Security and Military Intervention
Grist for the Mill
Since African history began to be produced in quantity one-and-a-half academic generations ago, there have rarely been shortages of new explanatory theory, though sometimes there has been paucity of data, more often of field than of archival materials. Usually there has been little open discussion of the kinds of methodological problems that both of the other circumstances pose. This contribution to that debate attempts to be deliberately simple,…
Grist for the Mill
Since African history began to be produced in quantity one-and-a-half academic generations ago, there have rarely been shortages of new explanatory theory, though sometimes there has been paucity of data, more often of field than of archival materials. Usually there has been little open discussion of the kinds of methodological problems that both of the other circumstances pose. This contribution to that debate attempts to be deliberately simple,…
The end of the beginning of African history
Disease at the crossroads
The Children of Woot
More Tales from the Dark Continent
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The Hidden Hippopotamus
I. Introduction
What is to be done? Burning questions of our movement
The Hidden Hippopotamus. Reappraisal in African History
African boundaries. A legal and diplomatic encyclopaedia
The Hidden Hippopotamus
Threat from the East? Soviet policy from Afghanistan and Iran to the Horn of Africa
Journal Article Threat from the East? Soviet policy from Afghanistan and Iran to the Horn of Africa Get access Threat from the East? Soviet policy from Afghanistan and Iran to the Horn of Africa, by Fred Halliday. Penguin Books, London, 1982. 149pp. £1.75. GWYN PRINS GWYN PRINS Emmanuel CollegeCambridge Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 82, Issue 327, April 1983, Pages 295–297, https:…
Perverse Paradoxes in the Application of the Paradoxical Logic of Strategy
Conventional force restructuring and arms control
F. Barnaby, The Automated Battlefield. New York: The Free Press, 1986. Pp.185; $18.95. R. Berg and A.D. Rotfeld, Building Security in Europe: Confidence ‐Building Measures and the CSCE. New York: Institute for East‐West Security Studies, 1986. Pp.iii + 181; paperback; NP. A. Pierre (ed.), The Conventional Defense of Europe: New Technologies and New Strategies (Europe/America series No.5), New York and London: New York University Press, 1986. Pp.x…
The Empire of Nature
Journal Article The Empire of Nature: Hunting, Conservation and British Imperialism Get access The Empire of Nature: Hunting, Conservation and British Imperialism, by John M. MacKenzie. Manchester University Press, Manchester, 1988. x + 340 pp. £35.00 hardback. ISBN 0 7190 2227 4. GWYN PRINS GWYN PRINS Emmanuel CollegeCambridge Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 88, Issue 352, July 198…
Games against Nature
Journal Article Games against Nature: An eco-cultural history of the Nunu of Equatorial Africa Get access Games against Nature: An eco-cultural history of the Nunu of Equatorial Africa, by Robert Harms. Cambridge University Press, 1987. xi + 276 pp. £30.00 hardback. ISBN 0 521 34373 9. GWYN PRINS GWYN PRINS Emmanual CollegeCambridge Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 88, Issue 350, Jan…
Siaya
Journal Article Siaya: the historical anthropology of an African landscape Get access Siaya: the historical anthropology of an African landscape, by David W. Cohen and E. S. Atieno Odhiambo. James Currey, London, 1988. viii + 152pp. £19.95 hardback, £7.95 paperback. ISBN 08214 0901 8 and 08214 0902 6. GWYN PRINS GWYN PRINS Emmanuel CollegeCambridge Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 88…
But What Was the Disease? The Present State of Health and Healing in African Studies
Journal Article BUT WHAT WAS THE DISEASE? THE PRESENT STATE OF HEALTH AND HEALING IN AFRICAN STUDIES Get access Gwyn Prins Gwyn Prins Emmanuel CollegeCambridge Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Past & Present, Volume 124, Issue 1, August 1989, Pages 159–179, https://doi.org/10.1093/past/124.1.159 Published: 01 August 1989
The Role of Superpower Summitry
The Battle for Control of the Camera in Late Nineteenth Century Western Zambia
THE BATTLE FOR CONTROL OF THE CAMERA IN LATE NINETEENTH CENTURY WESTERN ZAMBIA GWYN PRINS GWYN PRINS Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 89, Issue 354, January 1990, Pages 96–105, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.afraf.a098282 Published: 01 January 1990
Politics and the environment
Gwyn Prins outlines the environmental issues coming onto the international policy agenda and argues that governments will find it hard to address these issues effectively because environmental problems are not susceptible to normal political treatment. Environmental effects are synergistic, and environmental problems cannot be successfully tackled discretely, one by one. Their successful resolution would require a concerted, equally synergistic r…
Home Is Where the Heart Is
That Assembly, since the destruction of the orders, has no fundamental law, no strict convention, no respected usage to restrain it...‘fools rush in where angels fear to tread’. In such a state of unbounded power for undefined and undefinable purposes, the evil of a moral and almost physical inaptitude of the man to the function must be the greatest we can conceive to happen in the management of human affairs. 2
Spring in Winter
A compilation of scholarly studies addressing the nature and causes of the 1989 revolutions in Eastern European countries. Including a preface by the Czechoslovakian president, Vaclav Havel, contributors include such well-known figures as John Kenneth Galbraith
Nuclear non-proliferation and global order
Journal Article Nuclear non-proliferation and global order Get access Nuclear non-proliferation and global order. By Harald Müller, David Fischerand Wolfgang Kötter. Oxford: Oxford University Press for SIPRI, Stockholm. 1994. 258pp. Index. £25.00. ISBN 0 19 829155 8. Gwyn Prins Gwyn Prins 1Global Security Programme, University of Cambridge Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 71, I…
Notes Toward the Definition of Global Security
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